Promoting Engagement: Using Species Action Plans to bring together Students and Conservation Professionals

Conservation Strategies, Species Action Plans, and Translocation

Protocadherins bring cells together

Shining new light on the function of Aurora A A urora A isn’t exactly a mystery protein, but researchers have struggled to determine its function. Hégarat et al. discovered that the kinase helps line up mitotic chromosomes and spurs disassembly of microtubules during anaphase, in collaboration with its cousin Aurora B. Studies on various cell types have furnished contradictory answers about wha...

Patient experiences of engagement with care plans and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of that engagement

BACKGROUND Although patient engagement is internationally recognized as a core quality indicator of healthcare systems, no report has yet explored patient engagement in Saudi Arabia. Thus, we explored patients' experiences of engagement with healthcare services and assessed physicians' and nurses' perceptions of this engagement. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study on patients and the...

How (not) to bring psychology and biology together

Evolutionary psychologists often try to ‘‘bring together’’ biology and psychology by making predictions about what specific psychological mechanisms exist from theories about what patterns of behaviour would have been adaptive in the EEA for humans. This paper shows that one of the deepest methodological generalities in evolutionary biology—that proximate explanations and ultimate explanations ...

Semantic Lenses to Bring Digital and Semantic Publishing Together

Modern scholarly publishers are making steps towards semantic publishing, i.e. the use of Web and Semantic Web technologies to represent formally the meaning of a published document by specifying information about it as metadata and to publish them as Open Linked Data. In this paper we introduced a way to use a particular semantic publishing model, called semantic lenses, to semantically enhanc...